This also affects OBS Studio (focal package obs-studio), which fails to record using VAAPI hardware encoding due to this bug.
Workaround: Start obs with the LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME environment variable set to the driver matching your Intel hardware, e.g. the following for my Intel Skylake CPU. LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965 obs ** Also affects: libva via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956281 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Also affects: obs-studio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872875 Title: [Focal] Intel libva va_openDriver() returns -1 (VA-API broken) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libva/+bug/1872875/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs